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I guess my point is just that I don't really understand why one specific species defines "normal" when I wouldn't be anything special outside of any other crosses. How do you know what qualifies as a "power" when a human with a machine gun could take out so many other creatures without being considered powerful. 
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Because that isn't a power. It's a weapon. The species itself doesn't define the normal standard, it's just that the majority of species rest at that level and it's easiest for me, as a human, to relate things of this sort to the capabilities of humanity.